Day 8 – Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Spy Who Shagged Me. A parody of the James Bond film, where the leading man, Austin Powers, goes back in time to rescue his mojo from Dr Evil.

I decided that now would be a good time to watch this film. My cat got ran over last night, and I wasn’t there to bury him, so there were a lot of tears both last night and this morning. I didn’t want to upset myself with any romance or drama films because I’ve had enough of crying. So I thought ‘Hey. Austin Powers is funny, right?’

Kind of.

Back when it was released, I remember it being quite a hit at my school. All the kids loved it. And from watching it, I can imagine that I would have loved it just the same.

Now though? It hurts my brain.

The acting was so over the top, it was almost unbearable. Complete slapstick, the plot was mostly stupid and it was a little painful to watch.

That being said, I couldn’t help but laugh. Particularly at Dr Evil and Mini Me. The duck face, the over emphasizing of words…all so bad…but just so funny. And Mini Me was just bad ass. I won’t even try to deny that.

Austin Powers did annoy me though. I didn’t really like him. Not sure you were supposed to, but I didn’t really find him funny. Every so often his goofy expressions would make me chuckle, but that’s about it. He was just playing the fool, which sadly as I’ve grown up has become less appealing to me.

Like I said, the plot was just plain stupid. There really was no point in it. At least, I didn’t think there was.

To be honest, the whole thing has left me a little bit numb. I don’t really know what to think. I can see why it was so popular back in the day…but to watch it now as a 21 year old rather than a 12 year old was almost traumatic.

Since words aren’t easily flowing after this particular film, I’m going to end it with…well…I don’t know. It’s okay. At least, I think it was…

I was almost done with high school when the first one of these came out and I found it pretty funny, then as each sequel came out I found them less and less funny. I’m pretty sure it was a combination of me getting older as well as them getting worse.